Personal information | |||
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Full name | Clifford Rayes Miranda | ||
Date of birth | 11 July 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Margao, Goa, India | ||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1996–2000 | Tata FA | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000–2015 | Dempo | 300+ | (40+) |
2014 | → Goa (loan) | 11 | (1) |
2015–2016 | Atlético de Kolkata | 1 | (0) |
2016 | → Mumbai (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2016 | Minerva Punjab | ||
2017 | Churchill Brothers | 4 | (0) |
International career | |||
2005–2014 | India | 45 | (6) |
Managerial career | |||
2018–2019 | Goa Reserves | ||
2019–2022 | Goa (assistant) | ||
2020 | Goa (interim) | ||
2022–2023 | Odisha (assistant) | ||
2023 | Odisha (interim) | ||
2023– | Mohun Bagan (assistant) | ||
2023– | India U23 (head coach) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Clifford Rayes Miranda (born 11 July 1982) is an Indian professional football manager and former player who is the assistant coach of Indian Super League club Mohun Bagan [1] and the head coach of the India national under-23 team. [2]
Miranda was an attacking midfielder who spent most of his career with Dempo in the National Football League and the I-League from 2000 to 2015. [3] During his time with the Goan side, he won five league titles and four domestic cup honours. He was capped 45 times for the India national team from 2005 to 2014. He was a part of 2008 AFC Challenge Cup winning Indian team, thus qualifying for the AFC Asian Cup after 27 years. He also won two the SAFF Championship twice.
After retiring as a player, Miranda coached Goa Reserves and won the Goa Professional League title. He joined Goa an assistant coach in 2019, later took over the first-team as an in interim head coach in 2020 and won the league title. In 2022, Miranda was appointed as an assistant coach at Odisha. Promoted as an interim head coach in 2023, he won the Super Cup and qualification to AFC Cup group stage. In August 2023, he was appointed as the head coach of India national under-23 team.
After starting his career with the Salcete FC, a team renowned in South Goa for being a nursery of young players. He moved to the prestigious Tata Football Academy in Jamshedpur where he honed his football skills for four years.
Clifford was the only TFA graduate from his batch to sign a professional contract when he signed for Dempo, a second division club in 2000. He helped Dempo lift the National League title five times and the Indian Federation Cup in 2004. He was also part of the team that played the 2008 AFC Cup semi-finals. [4]
In July 2015 Miranda was drafted to play for Atlético de Kolkata in the 2015 Indian Super League. [5]
Miranda made his senior international debut for India against Pakistan in 2005. [6] During the Bob Houghton era, Miranda became a regular member of Houghton's team due to his ability to dribble and deliver deadly crosses from the left side of the field.
Miranda was a part of the Nehru Cup winning squads of 2007 and 2009 and helped Baichung Bhutia, the then captain of the Indian team lift the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup. He was also a member of the India team that participated in the 2011 Asia Cup in Qatar.
Miranda retired from playing football in 2017 and went into coaching after being convinced to do so by his former coach, Derrick Pereira. [7] He joined his former playing club Goa as an assistant to Pereira, club's director of youth development. [7] In 2018, Miranda became the head coach of Goa Reserves side in the Goa Professional League and I-League 2nd Division. [8] He won the 2018–19 Goa Professional League with the club. [9]
Prior to 2019–20, Miranda was as appointed as an assistant coach with the senior team under Sergio Lobera. On 3 February 2020, he was appointed as the interim head coach after the club sacked Lobera. [10] In charge of last three league matches and two playoff matches, he guided the club to league title and Goa became the first Indian club to qualify for AFC Champions League group stage. [11] He continued at the club as an assistant coach till the end of 2021–22 season.
On 28 June 2022, Miranda was appointed as an assistant coach at Indian Super League club Odisha. [12] After head coach Josep Gombau parted ways with club at the end of the 2022–23 season, he was appointed as the interim head coach on 16 March 2023. [13] He led Odisha to their first ever major title with a 2–1 win over Bengaluru in the 2023 Indian Super Cup final and became the first Indian coach to do so. [14] He later led the club to a historic 2023–24 AFC Cup group stage qualification with a 3–1 win over Gokulam Kerala in the qualifier. [15]
On 1 August 2023, Miranda was appointed as an assistant coach to Juan Ferrando at Mohun Bagan SG. [16] He later took over as caretaker manager in the 2024 Indian Super Cup after the sacking of Ferrando. [17]
On 3 August 2023, Miranda was appointed as the head coach of India national under-23 team ahead of the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification. [18]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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India | |||
2005 | 3 | 0 | |
2006 | 0 | 0 | |
2007 | 6 | 0 | |
2008 | 4 | 0 | |
2009 | 0 | 0 | |
2010 | 7 | 0 | |
2011 | 10 | 3 | |
2012 | 6 | 0 | |
2013 | 7 | 3 | |
2014 | 2 | 0 | |
Total | 45 | 6 |
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 5 December 2011 | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi | Bhutan | 2–0 | 5–0 | 2011 SAFF Championship |
2. | 5 December 2011 | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi | Bhutan | 3–0 | 5–0 | 2011 SAFF Championship |
3. | 11 December 2011 | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi | Afghanistan | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2011 SAFF Championship |
4. | 6 February 2013 | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi | Palestine | 1–0 | 2–4 | Friendly |
5. | 4 March 2013 | Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon | Guam | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2014 AFC Challenge Cup qualification |
6. | 19 November 2013 | Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri | Nepal | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
Team | From | To | Record | Ref. | |||||||
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M | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
Goa (interim) | 3 February 2020 | 30 April 2021 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 9 | +10 | 80.00 | [20] |
Odisha (interim) | 16 March 2023 | 25 April 2023 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 83.33 | [21] |
India U23 | 3 August 2023 | Present | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0.00 | [lower-alpha 1] |
Mohun Bagan SG (caretaker) | 9 January 2024 | 19 January 2024 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | +0 | 66.67 | [22] |
Total | 16 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 39 | 24 | +15 | 68.75 |
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